Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-18
OLD SOILS FATAL RAYS.
OVER A HUNDRED CHICAGOANS FALL
VICTIMS TO THEM.
An Extraordinary Wave of Torridness Do
ing Deadly Work All Over the west-The
Suns Rays as Fatal a PestfIenee-
Probability of a Continuation of the Heat
Where 1t Comes from.


Probability of a Continuation of the Heat
Where 1t Comes from.
CHICAGO, July 18-The temperature in |
this city at O'Clock Saturday night was l04, |
and the victims of the heat in forty-eight |
hours prior to that time was very great liz
many manufactures Saturday the employees
were compelled to quit work on account of
the great heat
The hot weather continued Sunday, the
temperature ranging from 80 to 100, Fifty
three cases # death from sunStroke were re
ported During the past three days there
have been more than 1u0 fatalities from the
excessive heat. Sunday night a cool breeze
was blowing, and it was hoped the heated
term was ended, but if the Indications of the
weather bureau go for anything it is to he
but a temporary relief 1t may be cooler for
a while, but further spell of hot weather is
coming, and there is probability that unless
a vast change occurs in the atmospheric con
ditions as now observed the next dose of heat
will equal, if not quite Surpass, anything yet
experienced
The cuusas Of TIE heat are simple and I'M
eIrIng. The latent heat of this season in New
Mexico, Colorado, aud Arizona has been re
leased b. ram, and It Is asserted by scientists
that ~ the event of such release, the heat
settles down on some other quarter, usually
travelling in an easterlv direction This Is
said 10 he the direct cause Of the heat in the
district Of which Chicago Is the center As
heavy rains are now falling in the territory
mentioned west OF the Mississippi il follows
that further cyclone OF heat is on its way
here.
This city was like on oven Sunday. PEG
pie were afraid to go on the streets, and the
parks themselves were hardly relief to the
comparatively few who ventured to go to
them.
AT Streator. Ill. 1t was 10 at O'Clock
p m, saturday 1t is feared a water famine
will occur there soon, as the wells and streams
are running dry, and the waterworks have
almost given out.
A dispatch from Madison, Wis, says the
terrible beat of the past three weeks culmin-
ated Saturday in 81 in the shade The
drought there is terrible, but there is prospect
of rain, and cold wave is coming
Reports from all overthe states adjacent to
Illinois and other portions OF the west and
northwest tell the same story of almost I'M
precelented hot weather
CINCINNATI Ohio. july 1S-The mercury
Saturday ranged between $ degrees at a.
m and 9d5 at 3 p m. Eleven cases of
sunstroke were reported at the central police
| station during the day and evening Quite a
number of persons were overcome by the
heat, and some Of them are in dangerous
condition. But Sunday was the hottest day
| OF the season There were a dozen eases of
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fatal The thermometer registered l0l at 4
| p. M
| LOUISVILLE, Ky, July ls.-There were ten
| fatal cases oG suustroke i'll this city Sunday
two women and eight meu-all of whom were
white With the exception of one woman all
had been drinking The maximum tempera-
ture was reached at , O'Clock u. IN. when the
| Thermometer at the United States signal office
registered ~ degrees.
| NEW YORK, July IS-The Thermometer
| Sunday registered 81 degrees at noon Then
| a vicious s1Iall OF wind aud rain came out of
| the west, and ragged for about IN hour The
wind reached velocity OF seventy-four
miles an hour and did considerable damage
| to buildings Another severe eale occurred
at 10 O'Clock 2. m, Many crafts in the waters
| OF the vicinity We're UPSET but it is not known
/ that any lives were lost The storm was very
severe at Coney Island and Rockawav,
damaging some of the hotel buildings 1t
caused panics on the boats and many people
We're drenched with the rain The highest
mercury Of the day was ~ degrees.
| PHILADELPHIA, July 1s-Smday was the
| hottest day with one exception for thirty
/ yelrs-lG2 degrees in the shade There were
| about thirty cases Of sunstroke, fourteen
| fatal.
! WAsHyGToN. j. C, July ls.-The heat
was so intense in the government depart
ments Saturday that many of the employees.
| especially the ladies were permitted to leave
an hour OF two earlier than usual In the
( pension office. which is covered largely with
/ glass, on the top door the mercury reached
l2u, and the entire force quit work early in
/ the day
/ BALTIMORE, Md, July lS-Saturday vas
the hottest day since ISL Between . and )
/ O'Clock p. m. the Thermometer registered I01
| degrees
! ST. LOUIS. Mo. July lS-Sundav was the
hottest Of the month and every dav has been
hot. No Thermometer registered less than l0l
/ degrees and most of those ON the streets down
I town marked as high As lO9 in the shade In
+ the afternoon sixteen Inquests We're held by
! the coroner. Eleven OF them arr victims of
| the heat, ami most of the latter died Satur-
| tas night or Sunday morning. number of
| Sunday afternoon cases must also prove fatal.